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melodies with EMS.
Unified messaging
The user typically receives a short message notifying
them that they have a new message in their unified
messaging box, with icons or formatted text further
enhancing the message.
Internet e-mail alerts
An Internet e-mail alert is provided in the form of a short
message that typically details the sender of the e-mail,
the subject field and first few words of the e-mail
message, and in this case formatted text is excellent to
identify message elements.
Ring signals
Downloading ring signals from the Internet
News & commercials
World news illustrated, sports scores and news headlines,
finance and stock market news with diagrams and
tickers, commercial product promotions, weather reports
with maps, tunes from TV commercials as ring signals.
Info & entertainment
Ring signals, e-greetings, football club logo, joke-of-the-
day illustrated by pictures or sound, horoscopes, movie
related animation or theme song, TV show promotions,
music artist promotions, lottery results, food and drinks
pictures and recipes, mood-related pictures.
Corporate
Flight schedules, pre-installed corporate logos, map
snippets and travel info, company branded icons and ring
signals, corporate e-mail notifications, affinity
programmes where companies notify customers of
product updates etc., banks notifying customers about
new services and interest rates, call centres providing
answers to questions about a product, vehicle positioning
combining EMS with Global Positioning System (GPS)
position information, job dispatch with delivery
addresses for sales or courier package delivery, using
EMS in a retail environment for credit card
authorization, remote monitoring of machines for service
and maintenance purposes.
Using WAP, WAP And SMS for download
Already today services exist on the Internet where users
can create melodies, and view icons and pictures,
subscribe to entertainment and informations services.
These may develop further in the future to support access
via PC over the Internet, from the phone using WAP and
even with an SMS request interface.
The diagram shows a model over the possibilities with Enhanced Messaging Service.